Stephanie Schorow

Stephanie Schorow is a BU communications instructor, a former full-time journalist, and the author or co-author of nine nonfiction books on Boston history topics including the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire of 1942, Boston’s notorious Combat Zone, the infamous Brink’s robbery of 1950, Boston fire history, the city’s drinking history, and the Boston Harbor Islands. She has appeared as an expert in documentaries on the issues covered in her book. Her first novel, Cat Dreaming: A Story of Friendships and Second Chances, (Brother Mockingbird, 2023) is a wickedly funny romp through the 1980s with four newspaper women, their lovers, and their cats. She was the project leader on A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal, (History Press, 2023) a story of four women who traveled to Great Brewster Island in 1891 for a memorable escapade. Schorow has been an editor, reporter and/or freelance correspondent for the Boston Herald, the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, and newspapers in Missouri, Idaho, Utah, and Connecticut. She has previously taught writing and editing courses at Lasell University, Regis College, Lesley University, Newbury College and Emerson College. She has taught workshops on writing nonfiction and promoting your nonfiction work, including at the 2023 Cape Cod Writers Conference in Hyannis. For four years she worked as a communications writer for Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has also worked in communications for Bunker Hill Community College and MIT.